1
Dec
2011
Behold, the NFL Coaches Soundboard
From Complex.com comes this tremendous NFL Coaches Soundboard, featuring some of the more memorable quotes in league history from some of its finest coaches.
In addition to the more well-known classics, we get surly sound bytes from living legends like Bill Belichick (“Stats are for losers….final scores are for winners.”), Bill Parcells (“So consider yourself sucked”) and Mike Ditka (“We’re not going to be the hittees, we’re going to be the hitters.”). Plus, we also get lesser-known gems from John McKay (“Well we didn’t block … but we made up for it by not tackling.”), Jerry Burns (“We had a f#cking trap play called, and his f#cking shoe comes off.”) and Bill Callahan (“We have got to be the dumbest team in America”). And a lot more.
So click the image below to check out the soundboard, and enjoy prank calling your friends as John Gruden, Mike Singletary and Rex Ryan stuck in an elevator. That’s just good times.
12
Nov
2011
Watch this Giants-49ers Monday Night Football Game from 1990 … in it’s entirety
(Photo via forums.49ers.com)
In preparation for tomorrow’s game featuring the same two teams, and just because it’s awesome, we bring you this classic 1990 defensive struggle between the 10-1 New York Giants and 10-1 San Francisco 49ers.
In it, we get a brilliant MNF broadcast with Michaels, Gifford and Dierdorf, featuring (among other greats) Joe Montana, Lawrence Taylor, Jerry Rice, Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick. And although the game didn’t see a lot of touchdowns, you’re watching one of the great offenses of its time squaring off against one of the best defenses in what would be a preview of that year’s NFC Championship game. It just works on so many levels.
So settle in and enjoy the full game … via YouTube user DaveMeggett, in all 13 glorious parts:
[H/T Reddit.com/r/NFL]
17
Nov
2010
Enter Drew Bledsoe and the 3-6 Megaton New England Patriots
In 1994, the Browns and Pats -- and their now-legendary coaches -- met in a classic post-season chess match. (Source: AP)
I want to get down to discussing a few things about this league we follow. The wife and I have a newborn and it’s been a challenge for me to get a lot of football posting done the past few weeks. We love having the little guy around — but he’s not afraid to let us know when he needs something.
Anyway, I’ve been thinking about the state of NFL teams sitting at 3-6, 2-7, 4-5 (maybe because, after the loss to the Jets, I saw the Browns’ playoff hopes move from “marginal” to “wicked-slim”). Entering Week 11, we’re starting to see teams slip away for good. Staring down a gun barrel with their season on the brink, a flock of lost squads are a step away from extinction — and they know it.
Sure, they’ll play for pride, they say, but when a team is deep-sixed before Thanksgiving, with key players hitting IR, where does it draw its hope… (Hold on. baby crying—————needs to be changed——————————–)
[17 minutes later]
Some teams, on the brink of elimination, suddenly rocket to life. The 2008 San Diego Chargers opened their season 4-8 before ripping off four consecutive wins and squeaking into the playoffs at 8-8. Once there, they bomb-blasted the 12-4 Indianapolis Colts in the Wildcard (only adding to my feelings of wild apathy for Peyton Manning, but that’s another column).
A memorable turn for San Diego, but I don’t see that scenario unfolding in… (Baby melting——-will be————————-back)
…in this year’s AFC race. The conference looks prepped to send nothing less than 10-win teams to the playoffs.
Looking at which teams can still mathematically win 10 games, the bleakest starting point would be 3-6.
Do we have examples of 3-6 teams winning out? If so, not many. By Week 11, three-win teams (often sitting at three wins because of a genuine lack of talent or debilitating injuries) don’t often transform into world-beaters.
Still, do we have any examples?
Yes. We do.
The best that comes to mind — the 1994 New England Patriots, coached by Bill…
(baby needs to be rocked and stilled into sleep using vacuum cleaner sounds———————-be back in 35 minutes or so—————-)
…Parcells, with a 22-year old, coming-of-age Drew Bledsoe, in his second season. The team got off to a rocky start but showed promise by playing with proven opponents nobody expected them to compete against.
This young Patriots team forged a rather non-Parcells identity down the stretch by throwing the ball all over the place.
People were surprised by Parcells’ — well — flexibility to embrace a team that relied on the air attack.
Sitting at 3-6, and knowing the season was on the line, Parcells shocked football land by utterly unleashing Bledsoe against an unsuspecting 7-3 Minnesota Vikings team. The Pats had nothing to lose and Bledsoe lit up the sky, completed 45 of 70 passes for a whopping 426 yards and three touchdowns, with zero interceptions.
It was transformative.
New England went on to win seven games in a row
That ’94 Pats team ultimately met the 11-5 Cleveland Browns in the AFC Wildcard.
The Browns, led by a raw, less-experienced Bill Belichick, allowed the fewest points in the AFC that season. The showdown between Parcells and his prized student had everything you could ask for in a playoff game.
13
Apr
2010
VIDEO: Drunken Jerry Jones trashes Bill Parcells and Tim Tebow
Deadspin brings us this AWESOME (if blurry) cell phone video of an obviously drunken Jerry Jones spouting off at a bar about Tim Tebow and Bill Parcells. Watch for yourselves:
The full transcript of Jones’ wonderful ramblings is at the Deadspin article. Among other gems, Jones says Parcells is “not worth shit”, but that he hired him to help generate enough money for the new Cowboys Stadium. And after being prodded (by these obvious Florida fans) about drafting Tebow, Jones states that he’d “never get on the field” with the Cowboys.
Quite frankly, none of this is particularly shocking stuff. I mean, it’s about how you’d expect a boozed up Jones to act. And it’s wildly refreshing to hear someone finally call out Parcells, who hasn’t won a thing in a generation. It’s certainly no revelation that money is Jones’ primary motivation in his management of the Cowboys. And we already know the man loves his hooch:
As for Tebow … well, he’s pretty much on point about that too.
Wow. The most surprising thing to me is that I’m defending Jerry Jones right now. But there ya go.
8
Jan
2010
NFL Coaches get the Auto-Tune Treatment
Auto-Tune, in general, might be the worst thing to happen to music in the last 50 years. Thank you Kanye and T-Pain.
But the one good thing to come from this technology has been it’s usage to turn news and other press conferences into somewhat-funny hip-hop parodies (see Auto-Tune The News). DJ Steve Porter, who created the best of the bunch in Press Hop and the Slap Chop Rap, has now set his sights on NFL coaches, resulting in the “You Play To Win The Game” remix video above. Well played, sir.
2
Sep
2009
Was football better in the 1980s?
Maybe it’s just because I was in middle school, and super nerdy, and obsessed with every minute of pro football during the 1980s–I’m not sure–all I know is that I don’t even root for either of these teams, but completely respect their place in history, and love watching these old clips:
Giants-Niners 1985 Wildcard Game
